Windows Vista

Windows Remote Assistance is a built-in tool that allows users to connect remotely and control the guest operating system. Windows Remote Assistance is a very useful tool for providing remote assistance when users need help. The tool is similar to VNC and NetOp. Windows Remote Assistance is an excellent way for network administrators to remotely…

The Command Prompt is a native Windows program that lets you execute commands without using a GUI. You can accomplish pretty much every task in the Command Prompt as you can with the GUI and a mouse. The Command Prompt gets its roots (arguably) from a combination of UNIX and MS-DOS. Consider it “Windows without…

With the new Aero Theme Microsoft introduced 3D look to windows, something that Mac OS X users have had for quite a while. With Aero, the user can view the 3rd dimension of a window by flipping the window by pressing the Windows Logo key + TAB. The overall appearance of the Windows Vista desktop…

The Event Viewer is an application that enables you to browse and manage event logs. Event logs are special files that record significant events on your computer, such as when a user logs on to the computer or when a program encounters an error. Whenever one of these types of events occur, the system records…

In Windows XP Microsoft introduced a new method of keeping a working copy of your system files called System Restore, and now we can also use it on Windows Vista. System Restore helps you restore your computer’s system files to an earlier point in time. It’s a way to undo system changes to your computer…

To protect your files you can create a backup by using Vista’s Backup Status and Configuration tool. A backup set is a set of copies of the files that is stored in a different location from the original files. That location can be a different partitions on your computer’s internal hard disk, an external hard…

Windows Vista is known to be much more picky about the file types it allows the user to use than previous operating systems. Some file types are considered to be a potential threat, and therefore are blocked. As a general – this is good, but sometimes it can just drive you nuts. Windows XP Pro…

The free, open source application Cygwin can be used in combination with OpenSSH to turn Windows Vista into an SSH Server. Cygwin is an extremely robust application and one of the many uses of Cygwin is an SSH Server. This tutorial will demonstrate how to setup Cygwin and consequently OpenSSH on Windows Vista. Among many…

Lately I began to use Windows Vista on my laptop computer, needless to say that one of the basic and first tasks that one will stumble upon when switching operating systems is the need to safely restore files and items from the old machine to the new one. Although Windows Vista comes with a file…